Spring 2000 Seminar Series on Stochastic Networks
 

SPRING 2000 SEMINAR SERIES

Network Modeling and Control

Thursdays, 2:30-4:00

B02 C&SRL
This seminar series on network modeling and control will be presented at the graduate/non-expert level.

Topics to be covered include
  • Fluid models for stability and control design
  • Large deviations and networks (Ravi Mazumdar will participate)
  • Controlled routing (e.g. Kelly & Laws)
  • Brownian models for control (Ruth Williams and Maury Bramson will participate)
  • Resource pooling and state-space-collapse
  • Fairness issues in control
  • Performance evaluation and simulation (Shane Henderson will participate)
  • Performance evaluation: nonlinear/linear programming

The first meeting will be held from 2:30 - 4:00 on Tuesday, January 18th

The seminar series will begin with an intensive crash course on optimization presented by Sean Meyn:

Tuesday, January 18 Introduction to stochastic networks: goals, approaches, and models.
Tuesday, January 25 Stability and structure of Markov chains on a countable state space.
Notes are available on the web: A crash course on Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability.
Thursday, January 27 Markov decision processes, and the average cost optimization problem.
See the MDP survey, and the presentation in pdf format.
Tuesday, February 1 Fluid models: stability and optimization
See: Recent Presentations for several related presentations

Subsequent talks will be regularly scheduled once per week on Thursdays from 2:30-3:50pm.

Click here for a curent timetables and abstracts.

Interested Graduate Students: ECE498 reading course credit is available; contact Sean Meyn for details. Registration is not required to attend any of the seminars.

For more information, contact Sean Meyn ( s-meyn@uiuc.edu ) or Jenny Steichen (steichen@math.uiuc.edu )

To be added to the seminar mailing list, contact Sean Meyn.